Biography: Dr. Anil Madhavapeddy is a University Lecturer at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory, and a Fellow of Pembroke College where he is Director of Studies for Computer Science. He has worked in industry (NetApp, Citrix, Intel), academia (Cambridge, Imperial, UCLA) and startups (XenSource, Unikernel Systems, Docker) over the past two decades. At Cambridge, he directs … DLS: Functional Foundations for Operating Systems
Rethinking High performance computing Platforms: Challenges, Opportunities and Recommendations, co-authored by Adam Barker and a team (Ole Weidner, Malcolm Atkinson, Rosa Filgueira Vicente) in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh was recently featured in the Communications of the ACM and HPC Wire. The paper focuses on container technology and argues that a number of … Containers for HPC environments
Congratulations to Uchechukwu Awada, who presented “Improving resource efficiency of container-instance clusters on clouds” at the 17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing.
“Thanks to cloud computing, accessing to a virtualised computing cluster has become not only easy but also feasible to organisations, especially small and medium-sized ones. First of all, it does not require an upfront investment in building data centres and a constant expense for managing them. Instead, users can pay only for the amount of … SRG Seminar: Cloud scheduling algorithms by Long Thai
A survey article written by Jonathan Ward and Adam Barker has been featured in the MIT Technology Review. Undefined By Data: A Survey of Big Data Definitions surveys the various definitions of big data offered by the world’s biggest and most influential high-tech organisations. The article then attempts to distill from all this noise a … Big Data Research Featured in MIT Technology Review
The system for posting news and events has been replaced with a combination of the School blog and an RSS feed to the School web site. For more information, follow the links at the foot of the School home page.